Posted on 02/07/2017 1:05:29 PM PST by billorites
Statement of AFT President Randi Weingarten on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as secretary of education.
“DeVos’ confirmation battle has a major silver lining: The public in public education has never been more visible or more vocal, and it is not going back in the shadows. This same public—from rural towns to urban centers, from liberals to conservatives—will now serve as a check and balance, and they will be fierce fighters on behalf of children. I am honored to be a soldier in that movement for children.
“It’s telling that even when Trump had full control of the legislative and executive branches, he could only get DeVos confirmed by an unprecedented tiebreaking vote by his vice president. That’s because DeVos shows an antipathy for public schools; a full-throttled embrace of private, for-profit alternatives; and a lack of basic understanding of what children need to succeed in school.
“If she wants to work with the educators who work hard every single day—in districts as diverse as McDowell County, W.Va., Detroit, and Scarsdale, N.Y.—to provide children the opportunities they deserve, we renew our invitation to have her visit America’s public schools and see the strategies that work for kids.
“But it’s more likely we’ll now hear the same trashing of public schools that the disrupters, the privatizers and the austerity hawks have used for the last two decades. That makes this a sad day for children.”
Defund the left.
Yes, defund the left.
A lot of these teachers’ union members did NOT EVEN VOTE, so sure were they of their icon, the Great Miss Hillary!!
Dear teacher, lets review shall we? “Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” Dwight Eisenhower. Excuse me, you are on the track ...
They are failing because of leftist policies. They deserve to be trashed.
I’ve had a thought about this. DeVos is iffy on Common Core....in her past, she supported it. Now, she is opposed to Common Core. One can’t help but wonder why the teacher’s unions didn’t go after DeVos on Common Core. One can only conclude that the teacher’s unions are real happy with all of the wasted money and jobs caused by Common Core.
Put education back at the community level. We don’t need a Teacher’s Union. We don’t need a Department of Education. Washington politicians needn’t trouble themselves with this issue. Concerned parents will make sure that children are educated properly right there in the communities where they live.
The dept. of education needs to be shut down.
Not exactly unprecedented. Only two GOP senators voted no and BOTH are heavily funded by the teachers unions - a fact the hateful media refuses to divulge.
Hey, get with the “mainstream”!
Amy Hollyfield ;@amy_hollyfield · 15m15 minutes ago
Jeb Bush congratulates Betsy DeVos, asks opponents to drop ‘tired arguments’ http://dlvr.it/NK0J78
Re: ‘for profit alternatives’
Do teachers donate their time? Are they not working to make money?
Do they not STrike for more money??
Whistling past the graveyard.
He knows they are done.
That’s a secret they have to live with for the rest of their lives: they helped HRC lose. Can’t admit they stayed home.
Why it should not be possible for public teachers to unionize.
They are only interested in their own selves.
Then they do their best to corrupt the nation’s children for their political ends.
It’s a conflict of interest!
GOOD FUND RAISING MATERIAL FOR THE COMMY TEACHERS UNIONS THOUGH . . . Ever look at any of their literature? Try to find the word “student” anywhere in them. This is a fantastic poke in their GD eyes.
If you haven’t gone $150K in debt to get your Womyn’s Studies degree, you are not qualified to run the Dept. of Ed.
You are right. Now your incompetence and lack of interest in student achievement will be out in the open for all to see.
A long, long time ago the Republican Party was the conservative alternative to the Democrat Party.
“...the same trashing of public schools that the disrupters, the privatizers and the austerity hawks have used for the last two decades.”
Glad to know who the AFT’s enemies are. I self-identify as all three, proudly.
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